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In a major train mishap, at least 21 passengers were killed and over 80 others injured as 14 coaches of the Puri-Haridwar Kalinga Utkal Express derailed in Khatauli, 40-km from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar. The Railways has announced a compensation of Rs. 3.5 lakh for the family of those killed, Rs. 50,000 for those seriously injured and Rs. 25,000 for people with minor injuries.

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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) called for recapitalization of state-run banks to help them resolve the Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) issue in a time-bond manner. RBI Governor Urijit Patel said that gross NPA ratio of the banking system at 9.6 per cent and stressed advances ratio at 12 percent as of March 2017.

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Telecom regulators of 23 countries from the Asia-Pacific will meet in Delhi on August 21, 2017 to discuss challenges in framing rules for digital ecosystem and regional roaming, among others. Union Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha will inaugurate the meeting that is being jointly organised by the International Telecom Union (ITU) and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

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Stephen Bannon stepped down as the chief strategist of US President Donald Trump, ending a controversial tenure as the administration is engulfed in a storm over the president’s remarks on violence in Virginia. Bannon, 63, the chief executive of Trump’s presidential campaign and an architect of his election victory, was the leading champion of conservative populism within the administration.

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The World Photography Day was observed on August 19, 2017 across the world. This day is observed to inspire photographers across the planet to share a single photo with the world. On August 19 in 2010, World Photo Day hosted its first global online gallery.

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Renowned Polish-US playwright and screenwriter Janusz Glowacki passed away at the age of 78 on August 19, 2017. In 1987, his drama "Hunting Cockroaches" won the Hollywood Drama League Critics Award. "Antigone in New York" was awarded the Le Balladine Award in Paris for the best play of 1997, and "The Fourth Sister" won the main Grand Prize at the International Theatre Festival in Dubrovnik in 2001.

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India won two silver and six bronze medals at the Asian Junior Individual Squash Championship in Amman – the capital city of Jordan. Neel Joshi (Under-15) and Yuvraj Wadhwani (Under-13) ended runner-up in their respective sections to win the Silver medal. The bronze medals were won by Sunayna Kuruvilla, Ashita Pranaya, Yoshna Singh, Ananya Dabke, Navmi Sharma and Yuvna Gupta.

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A team led by an Indian-American professor, Pinaki Panigrahi has developed a breakthrough therapy for treating Sepsis - a condition of bacterial infection that spreads fast and leads to organ failure and kills 60000 infants globally. The therapy developed over the last 20 years has been found to reduce the risk of infection by 40% in trials and it can be inexpensive, i.e., less than one dollar for a course.

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Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, a German physician and nun known as “Pakistan’s Mother Teresa” was accorded a full state funeral, a first for a Christian woman in the Muslim-majority country. She died on August 10, 2017 after spending 57 years to working to eradicate leprosy, tuberculosis and other diseases in Pakistan.

Today’s Current Affairs – 21 August 2017

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